Cieslak's Homeschool-journey
It's all about the fun, the craziness, the things we learn and our thoughts!!!
So far this week we kept busy with little craft projects. It is interesting what activity ideas our lessons have sometimes. In History we spoke about Nebuchadnezzar - King of Babylon. It is interesting to learn, not only about "normal" historical figures, but the many historical figures from the scriptures as well. With almost every lesson I am amazed how much I still have to learn and how little I knew about the subject before that lesson. Of course I had heard of Nebuchadnezzar before, but I didn't know many details about him and what happened to him. I didn't realize that the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon", which he had made for his Persian wife so she wouldn't be so homesick anymore, actually became one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The gardens don't exist anymore, but we saw quite a few different pictures/ paintings of artists and how they imagined what the gardens looked like. We also learned, that the Babylonian temple is called a ziggurat. To make it more visual, we created a small little paper ziggurat. They also had a craft project idea in the lesson of creating a ziggurat out of cardboard and sugar cubes, and we would have totally done that if I would have had sugar cubes at home, but maybe sometime in the future. ;) The boys little paper ziggurat is pretty cool, too. For the past few weeks we have listened to the audio book "Bambi" in Literature. Not the Disney version, but the original version by Felix Salten. The boys are actually sad how short the book and the story is, and would have preferred it to be longer. After listening to "Little House in the Big Woods", which took us many weeks to finish, "Bambi" really is very short, but it is still a great learning experience because Bambi's story teaches many important things about life and how we can apply it to ourselves. Since the lessons about Bambi are coming to an end soon, the boys were able to put together a cute little lantern. I am just glad the lessons itself have all those craft suggestions because I am definitely not a "crafty" person. ;) Josh and Nathan love doing art projects while listening to the stories we are reading/ listening to. It always amazes me, that they still hear what is going on in the story, even though they are so occupied with cutting, coloring, gluing and drawing. Now, our last project (at least for today) was putting together the "Ritter Sport Museum building". It will be a great memory of our field trip from last week.
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